August 2017 – mmo.to

Integrity checks of different file types after hard disk crashes

Posted on 2017-08-222017-08-22

So, your hard disk crashed? You rescued it with ddrescue/other tools? Now you don’t know if the files are still intact? Here some solutions for some media file formats: Movies (avi, mpeg, mp3, mkv, webm, … everything ffmpeg can decode.) ffmpeg -v error -i “$1″ -f null – 2>”$1”.log decodes a movie or audio file […]

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Fuck you, probability!

Posted on 2017-08-062017-08-06

So why do we nerds use NAS/Server storage with RAID systems? Because we know hardware can fail, especially mechanical hardware. And there are different variants of RAID (redundant array of independent disks) systems RAID 0 (All disks just appear as one) RAID 1 (One disk is mirrored to another one) RAID 10 (Half of the disks […]

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Programming is like magic. You write very specific instructions in arcane languages to invoke commands and if you get it even a little bit wrong you risk unleashing daemons and destroying everything.

Month: August 2017

Integrity checks of different file types after hard disk crashes

Fuck you, probability!